Sound Off for Monday, July 1, 2013

On the gay picture: Gayness is a lifestyle choice, not a civil right. The attorney’s office and the state law will tell you, it is defined, that in the state of Michigan Gov. Granholm signed a bill that protects the rights of Indians, disabled, women and gay people from being targeted. Would you like that law used against you, because those two people could be targeted from what you are currently doing. And sir, I would stop it. Gays have more rights than what people believe. Stop pushing other people’s civil rights off the page. Just stop it.

Sumner

Sorry, but I’m not a huge fan of death metal. Please turn it down, casino.

Mt. Pleasant

In regards to the people writing about the gay article on the front page, I think it’s amazing those bigots who have trouble with gays and blacks and anyone who is not staunch white... it’s amazing these people are even allowed to remain in this country. It’s sad and pathetic. Live your life and quit worrying about what other people are doing.

Mt. Pleasant

As a grandmother of a special needs granddaughter, and an aunt of a gay nephew, I applaud Rick Mills for his Sunday column. Thank you.

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All you people should be ashamed. Our government ought to be ashamed, all you states that are legalizing gay marriage, you should all be ashamed.

Mt. Pleasant

That concert was down the road, and there was no wind, and it was so loud, and I couldn’t get to sleep because they didn’t stop until 10:30 at night. That is really hard on old people. They do it every summer, and at the Fourth of July, too. Why don’t they take it somewhere else?

Isabella County

Same-sex marriage is nothing but a political football when this president, who was always against it, suddenly evolved and changed his platform for his own benefit.

Mt. Pleasant

For Chemical Bank in Rosebush: Hey, you took your thermometer and clock down. How are we going to know what time it is or what the temperature is? You’ve got to do what you’ve got to do, but we will dearly miss it.

Rosebush

To the 99.9 percent caller who was “grossed out” by the same-sex couple being featured in the Morning Sun, as it turns out, the majority of Americans, by a margin of 10- to 20-percent, are in favor of allowing same-sex marriage. Some people may find it icky? That’s probably not enough to deny 9 to 10 million Americans basic civil rights.

Mt. Pleasant

I’m just saying that I love watching sports. I support all Michigan sports, and I’d love to support them even more by spending my money at the casino if they had sports gambling. The casino needs to have sports gambling.

Mt. Pleasant

Congress once again failed to do their job. Student loan interest doubled from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent, while Congress managed to go on summer recess. Banks, meanwhile, continue to pay 3.4 percent. You can bet they are not affected.

Weidman

Just went to Charlevoix and saw gas as low as $3.21. Came home and it’s still $3.59. Ridiculous.

St. Louis

I’m reading the column Ed Fisher wrote about the Republicans, and I’m wondering how the paper could even print garbage like that?

Deerfield Township

I’m all for people recreating, but I feel the extension of the disk golf course at Deerfield Park has ruined the aesthetic beauty of the nature there.

Mt. Pleasant

I want to think the casino for such a wonderful concert Saturday night. The only problem is I live 4.5 miles away and I didn’t buy a ticket. I had to close my sliding glass door just so I could hear my TV. Come on, tone it down, please.

Deerfield Township

Aren’t you going to put in there about the Alma School Board’s got $100,000 they don’t know how to spend? Seems to me they’d save it for a rainy day.

Alma

(Alma Public Schools cannot save that $93,000. The money is what is left over from a 2010 bond issue. By law, the money may only be spent on capital projects and it must be spent by October. It cannot be saved. – Ed.)

I think from the very time I seen the two gay men kissing on the front, which, if I recall, is the second time this has been run, possibly because there is a summer slump and your publication needs to pump up profits, Sound Off has gotten ridiculous.